I am a Burmese exile taking a near-permanent refuge in New York and Sydney. Here are my essays about Burma and anything else I feel like writing about. And posting the articles I like from selected sites. Bridging Burma to the world this Blog is more of a Politically-Oriented Literary Blog than a Plain News Blog or a Sophisticated Thoughts Blog.

Saturday, October 31, 2015

A Russian passenger plane the Metrojet's Airbus
A-321 carrying over 220 people from Egypt to Russia disappeared from radars,
and crashed in central Sinai, according to Russian and Egyptian authorities.

Kolavia Flight 7K9268, an Airbus A321,
went off radar 23 minutes after taking off from Sharm El-Sheikh International
Airport, Sergey Izvolskiy told the media citing preliminary data. The plane was
carrying 217 passengers and 7 crewmembers, he added. Twenty-five of the
passengers were children.

Both black box flight data recorders
from the crashed plane have been found, Egypt’s civil aviation minister said.
Experts have started decoding the data, according to Egypt’s prime minister. No
official causes of the crash have been declared yet.

Popular conservative journalist Andrew Bolt has
received death threats from Sydney Muslims.

Australian Journalists Covering Terror
Receive Death Threats from Muslims in Sydney. A senior journalist revealed
journalists covering the shooting by a young Islamist terrorist have been
subjected to death threats.

Speaking to group of representatives from Australia’s top news outlets,
senior reporter for Seven News Chris Reason related how, “Some media outlets
are receiving direct physical violent death threats, specific threats not to go
near Parramatta Mosque, where the 15-year-old went to pray. At one point a
senior member of the Daily Telegraph turned up there with two flak jackets.

“The situation is deadly serious among
journalists covering the story in Western Sydney. People have been seen
videoing journos in their cars. Journos and cameramen are doing their job more
cautiously, but they continue covering this critical story well.”

Wednesday, October 28, 2015

Penny drops at the ABC: maybe Islam
really does need reform. Maybe there really is a “death cult”. Tony Abbott was
mocked by much of the press gallery for referring to the Islamic State as a
“death cult”. He was attacked as rude
for calling for Muslim clerics to reform Islam to make it the “religion of
peace” they claimed.

Much of this criticism was driven by
ABC presenters. So Lateline last night was a surprise - or maybe confirmation
of my adage that the difference between a conservative and a Leftist is often
just time.

Host Tony Jones in his introduction
still tried formulaically to stick to the script about the “religion of peace”
(Or Religion of Pieces):

Monday, October 26, 2015

Sweden is fast approaching a complete
collapse. More and more municipalities are raising the alarm that if the
migrants keep coming at this pace, the government can no longer guarantee
normal service to its citizens.

In addition, ominous statements from government officials have left
Swedes in fear of what tomorrow may bring. If the migrant wave keeps coming, in
10-15 years, Swedes will be a minority in their own country. At a press
conference October 9, Prime Minister Stefan Löfven said that Sweden is in a
state of crisis. However, when asked to clarify what he meant by this, Löfven
was unable to produce a single coherent sentence.

Three ministers appeared by the Prime
Minister's side at the hastily summoned press conference, which came on the
heels of an extraordinary government meeting. The purpose of the press
conference seems to have been to convey two messages:

To explain to the world and the Swedish
people that Sweden is facing "one of the largest humanitarian efforts in
Swedish history." That there is no more housing available, and migrants
should be prepared to live in tents.

Sunday, October 25, 2015

The relentless flow of Muslim illegal
migrants does not stop. They land on the Greek islands along the Turkish coast.
They still try to get into Hungary, despite a razor wire fence and mobilized
army. Their destination is Germany or Scandinavia, sometimes France or the UK. Some
of them still arrive from Libya.

Since the beginning of January, more than 620,000 have arrived by sea
alone. There will undoubtedly be many more: a leaked secret document estimates
that by the end of December, there might be 1.5 million newly-arrived Muslim illegals
in Europe.

Left-leaning Journalists in Western
Europe continue to depict them as "refugees" fleeing war in Syria.
The description is false. According to statistics released by the European
Union, only twenty-five percent of them come from Syria; the true number is
probably lower. The Syrian government sells passports and birth certificates at
affordable prices. The vast majority of migrants come from other countries:
Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Eritrea, Somalia, and Nigeria.

Thursday, October 22, 2015

After Jason’s death I left the workshop
and managed to get a proper engineering job as the production supervisor for an
engineering company in the suburb of Bankstown in Western Sydney.

The company built Cartesian Robots for
mainly the palletizing operations of large-scale manufacturers in Australia.
Here in Australia every items produced are packed in bulk and placed on the
wooden or plastic pallets to be transported from the factories to the
warehouses and then to the supermarkets or the retail shops. Palletized goods
are perfect for the handling by the forklifts.

Job was interesting but the pay of 30K a year
was not that good. That might be the reason I got the job. Aussie graduate engineers
wouldn’t take that low a pay. And since I needed to save money for the
substantial deposit for a house I started driving taxis on Sydney streets on
the weekends.

Sunday, October 11, 2015

(CNSNews.com) - The federal Bureau of
Prisons, a subdivision of President Barack Obama's Justice Department, has
banished all pork products from the menus in all federal prisons, to appease
the growing Muslim population and allow Sharia Law to govern the federal
prisons according to a report in the Washington Post.

Obama Whitehouse says it made the
decision to do this because a survey showed that inmates do not like eating
pork products. The Muslim-Brotherhood-affiliated the Council on
American-Islamic relations said “we welcome” the move by the government to deny
pork to prisoners, but warned that it might spark “Islamophobia.”

Here are excerpts from the report by
the Post:

“The nation’s pork producers are in an uproar after the federal
government abruptly removed bacon, pork chops, pork links, ham and all other
pig products from the national menu for 206,000 federal inmates. The ban
started with the new fiscal year last week.

Thursday, October 8, 2015

Three weeks after the opening of German
borders to incoming refugees, opinion polls show that Chancellor Angela
Merkel's popularity has slumped dramatically - and it will only get worse,
writes DW's Felix Steiner.

Is history repeating itself? There are
at least parallels between Angela Merkel and two of her predecessors.

Parallel 1: Willy Brandt's genuflection
at the Warsaw Ghetto Memorial on December 7, 1970. The gesture, which by now
has become the synonym of the Brandt government's policy of détente, was by no
means planned. It was something that came over Brandt spontaneously and
intuitively: "I suddenly felt that bowing my head wouldn't do," he
was later quoted as saying.

Wednesday, October 7, 2015

THE 15-year-old male of Middle Eastern
background who dropped into Parramatta Mosque on Friday, before descending on
NSW Police HQ brandishing a loaded gun, was wearing a long black cloak, and
calling out “Allah Akbar”, before he put a bullet in the head of Curtis Cheng.

Even before official confirmation, it didn’t take a genius to work out
that the cold blooded execution of Cheng, 58, a police accountant and father of
two, was a terrorist attack perpetrated by a radical Muslim, no matter what his
age.

We’ve known since September 11, 2001,
exactly what Islamist terrorism is, and who are its targets. With the rise of
Islamic State we have seen lone wolf and tag team terrorist attacks occur
around the Western world with sickening regularity.

Tuesday, October 6, 2015

Ahmed Mohamed, the 14-year-old who was
arrested for taking a clock that looked like a bomb to MacArthur High School in
Irving, Texas, has attained mega-celebrity status at breakneck speed: he has
been showered with gifts by Microsoft, courted by Mark Zuckerberg and MIT,
invited to the White House, and much more. He received a VIP reception at the
United Nations, where he met an admiring Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet
Davutoglu.

What could be next? Maybe Pope Francis, ever anxious to appease Muslims,
will make him the first living person to be canonized a saint; in the meantime,
Ahmed will have to be content with the proclamation of Ahmed Day in New York
City – a day with implications far more ominous than Ahmed’s ever-smiling
countenance betrays.

Why is Ahmed Mohamed the world’s hero
of the moment? People are wrongfully arrested all the time, and numerous
children have fallen victim to schools’ zero-tolerance policy for weaponry,
with suspensions for guns drawn on paper, pop-tarts chewed into the shape of a gun,
and the like.

Monday, October 5, 2015

(Compilation of breaking news articles from various Australian
sources.)

Even a 6-year-old is radicalized by Hizb-ut-Tahrir.

The 15-year-old who shot dead a police
employee in Sydney is ­believed to have been ­radicalised through worshippers
he met at one of the city’s mainstream mosques where other teenagers are known
to have sympathies for the terrorist group Islamic State.

Farhad Khalil ­Mohammad Jabar would
regularly skip school to pray at the Parramatta Mosque, less than 1km from the
NSW Police State Crime Command building where he ­executed 58-year-old
accountant Curtis Cheng on ­Friday afternoon.

Detectives searched the mosque on Saturday night after reports Jabar had
been seen there before his attack, only hours after imams leading the day’s
service included one associated with the controversial ­political group
Hizb-ut-Tahrir.

Sunday, October 4, 2015

Parramatta shooting: Police search
mosque in shooting investigation. The Parramatta Mosque has been searched, a
senior police source has told the ABC, as investigations into Friday's fatal
shooting of a civilian police force employee continue.

Raid was part of investigations into
fatal shooting at Parramatta police HQ and the Muslim Shooter said to have
attended a mosque shortly before attack. Farhad Jabar Khali Mohammad, 15, shot
and killed 17-year police force veteran Curtis Cheng at close range outside the
Parramatta police headquarters.

A senior police source told the ABC
Farhad attended a mosque shortly before the shooting. The mosque believed to
have been searched overnight is a few blocks away from the site of the shooting
that killed Mr Cheng, 58, as he left work at 4:30pm on Friday.

Saturday, October 3, 2015

It started simply enough: a pregnant
Somali patient and a doctor in an examining room at Harborview Medical Center.
The doctor asked what she thought was a routine question: "If it's a boy,
do you want him circumcised?"

"Yes," the Somali woman replied. "But what if it's a
girl?" The refugee woman's question and its implications sent doctors and
administrators at Harborview reeling. Circumcision for girls? Surely no doctor
would ever consider performing removing healthy tissue, a procedure dubbed by
some accounts from Africa and other Third World countries as "female
genital mutilation."

And yet, these were women of another
culture, a culture the doctors believed they should respect. Soon, some began
to listen. And what they heard convinced them that as strongly as a Jewish
mother believes her son must be circumcised to be a member of the faith, so do
some Somali Muslim refugees in Seattle believe that their daughters' genitals
must be cut to comply with their religion and demands of their culture.

(The killer of Sydney Police Accountant Curtis Chen was an Iranian
Muslim refugee.)

Iranian boy terrorist Mohammad Jabar

An Iranian Muslim refugee, 15-year-old
Farhad Khalil Mohammad Jabar, was shot dead by special police constables just
outside the Sydney HQ of NSW Police after he cowardly and brutally killed
Police Accountant Curtis Cheng by shooting him point blank at his head from
behind.

The teenager, a naturalized Australian
who arrived with his family from Iran, had walked to the police headquarters in
Charles Street from his home in North Parramatta before opening fire on a
civilian police employee. The ‘radicalised’ Muslim youth gunned down police
finance department employee and father-of-two Curtis Cheng at close range
before being killed by a police officer.

En route to the killing the youth,
originally from Iran, had visited Parramatta Mosque, The Daily Telegraph
reported. Witnesses of the attack on Friday afternoon said after the killing,
the teen paraded in front of the police station with his weapon chanting
‘Allah, Allah’, it was reported.

The assailant, dressed all in black,
fired a number of shots at special constables guarding the NSW Police station
in Sydney, before he was gunned down and killed by one of the officers. Police
Commissioner Andrew Scipione said Mr Cheng was ‘simply leaving work’ when he
was shot in the back of the head by the gunman who was wearing ‘dark trousers
and a flowing top’.

Friday, October 2, 2015

December 1989 and it was last Saturday
before Christmas when they found Jason’s body in the bathtub inside a cheap
motel room in Sydney.

According to the local tabloid he
checked into the motel on Parramatta Road the night before, injected himself all
the bought-heroin, filled the tub to the rim, got in, and cut both wrists with
a disposable razor blade. When the motel people found him the water was all
blood red and he was stone cold dead.

Jason was a 22 year old Australian of
English descent originally from a small country town of Waga Waga about 700
kilometres south-west of Sydney. He was my former workmate and my only dear
friend in the whole wide Australia. He was not that tall, but broad, pale, and
skinny built with slight curls of blonde hair on his head.